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The Weight of Freedom

ผู้เขียน: Tori A. de
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The clock on my nightstand read 8:37 PM.

Twenty-three minutes.

I stared at the glowing red numbers until they blurred together.

Twenty-three minutes until freedom.

Twenty-three minutes until I climbed over the south wall and disappeared from Kain Volkov's life forever.

It was everything I had wanted.

So why did it feel like I couldn't breathe?

The room was silent except for the steady ticking of the antique clock near the window. Every second scraped against my nerves.

I sat on the edge of my b
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  • A Prey For My Enemy   The Choice She Made

    The night air was cold enough to bite.Kain stood motionless on the rooftop of an abandoned warehouse across the street, one hand resting on the edge of the concrete ledge as he watched the building below.The city's lights painted everything in shades of gold and shadow.Beside him, Dmitri lowered his binoculars."Still nothing."Kain didn't answer.His attention remained fixed on the restaurant entrance.Intelligence had been unusually specific.Julian was meeting someone tonight.Someone important.Someone valuable enough to justify breaking routine.For weeks Julian had been moving pieces across the board with a caution that bordered on paranoia.Burner phones.Unregistered vehicles.Dead drops.Encrypted messages.The behavior didn't fit the harmless image he'd spent years cultivating.Julian knew something.Kain had believed that from the beginning.Tonight he intended to find out what.A vibration buzzed against Dmitri's chest.The giant glanced down at his phone.His expressio

  • A Prey For My Enemy   The Weight of Freedom

    The clock on my nightstand read 8:37 PM.Twenty-three minutes.I stared at the glowing red numbers until they blurred together.Twenty-three minutes until freedom.Twenty-three minutes until I climbed over the south wall and disappeared from Kain Volkov's life forever.It was everything I had wanted.So why did it feel like I couldn't breathe?The room was silent except for the steady ticking of the antique clock near the window. Every second scraped against my nerves.I sat on the edge of my bed, my hands clasped tightly between my knees.The photographs from Kain's office wouldn't leave me alone.My parents.The warehouse.The video.Julian's name.The genetic confirmation.The truth I'd spent fifteen years believing had cracked wide open, exposing something ugly underneath.I should have felt vindicated.Instead, I felt lost.My gaze drifted toward the door.A memory flashed through my head.A dark room.Rain against the windows.Kain's arm wrapped around my waist.The slow rhythm

  • A Prey For My Enemy   Ghost on The Docks

    ## Chapter 60: GhostsThe binoculars stayed perfectly frozen in my hands.The frozen rain hit the windshield of the SUV, a mindless, scratching rhythm that suddenly sounded like it was miles away. The docks, the rusted crane, Dmitri’s heavy breathing in the seat beside me—all of it faded into a dull, gray static."Boss?" Dmitri's hand moved toward the door handle, his body shifting as he peered through his own scope. "Who is that? Do we move in?"I didn't answer. I couldn't. The cold air in my lungs felt like broken glass.Through the magnified lenses, the older woman stood under the amber dash light of the utility vehicle. Her grey eyes were flat, tracking Julian’s frantic movements with the chilling precision of a machine. She looked exactly the same. The same sharp tilt of the chin. The same unyielding, aristocratic posture.For the first time in fifteen years, I wasn't looking at the docks.The rain on the glass turned into the sound of footsteps on stone. The smell of cold river

  • A Prey For My Enemy   Stay or Leave

    TATIANAThe heavy click of the turning door handle shattered the silence.Instinct took over before my brain, I shut down the computer screen and slid out of the leather chair, my bare feet silent on the rug, and dove behind the heavy velvet drapes masking the floor-to-ceiling windows just as the door swung inward.The pale morning light from the hallway cut across the mahogany desk, illuminating the stacks of folders."Boss?"Dmitri’s deep, gravelly voice rasped through the room. I held my breath, my back pressed flat against the cold glass of the window, my heart hammering so hard against my ribs I was certain he could hear it. Through the tiny fraction of a gap in the velvet, I watched his massive silhouette step into the office.His eyes scanned the room, instantly locking onto the glowing monitor and the open filebox on the desk. A dark scowl twisted his features. He stepped closer, his hand dropping instinctively toward the holster at his hip.

  • A Prey For My Enemy   The Solakov Heir

    TATIANA My breath caught in my throat, a sharp prickle of sweat breaking out along my hairline despite the chill of the early morning. I stood perfectly still on the threshold, ears straining against the heavy silence of the corridor. The air in the office smelled of cigarettes. I came looking for a weapon. I wanted the cold, hard receipts of his cruelty, the proof that would erase the sickening warmth of his skin from my fingertips and give me back my hatred. The desk was immaculate. A single leather-bound blotting pad sat in the center, flanked by a brass banker's lamp and a low stack of manila folders. I bypassed the digital terminal first, my hands drawn to the drawers. The bottom right drawer glided open with a metallic click. Inside sat a heavy, fireproof lockbox. The key was sitting directly in the lock. My heart hammered against my ribs, a frantic, ugly rhythm. I turned the

  • A Prey For My Enemy   The Silence Between Us

    TATIANA Kain’s thumb kept caressing my skin, but his fingers weren’t digging in with the bruising force from before. He was awake, his breath hit the back of my neck in a slow, deliberate cadence.Neither of us spoke.I kept my eyes fixed on the ceiling, as a wave of disloyalty to the people whose blood was supposed to be the only thing that mattered consumed me. I spent weeks feeding on my hatred for this man, nursing it like a spark in the dark, and tonight I had let him use my body to extinguish his own ghosts.I forced my gaze to the torn mattress inches from my face, where the dagger Julian had given me remained buried to the hilt.A much needed reminder that this wasn't a truce. I remained a captive in this house, and the man holding me against him was still the architect of my nightmare."I almost lost control tonight," Kain said.His voice broke the quiet without warning, stripped of the pristine, robotic tone he used with his men. "Yeah?" I didn't turn around. "Hmmm" he

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